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This property comprises two houses, now adapted into two shops and two dwellings. The earlier house is located on the left, dating from the early to mid-16th century and extended in the early 17th century. It was refronted in the mid to late 19th century and has undergone 20th-century alterations. The structure is timber-framed with a brick front, all whitewashed and plastered, and has plaintiled roofs. It originally had four bays, potentially part open with a narrow cross passage bay and a storeyed service bay to the left. A further four bays were added to the rear, creating an L-shaped plan. The front features a half-glazed door in the cross passage position, a 19th-century canted shop window with small panes to the left, and a first-floor 2-light casement. To the right are two bays of recessed 19th-century cross-glazed sash windows with cambered heads. The roof rises to a higher ridge on the left, relating to the adjacent Crownleigh House. A later brick and slate-roofed, two-storey lean-to addition extends to the rear. A further range behind the service bay and cross passage incorporates an axial ridge stack with multiple conjoined diagonal shafts towards the front. The interior of the front range’s service bay reveals close studding and a stop-chamfered axial binding beam. The first floor contains a 4-light diamond mullioned window opening and stop-chamfered cambered tie beams. The roof is a crown post design with square posts to closed trusses at both ends of hall bays, arched braces to the collar purlin, although the blackening is absent and some rafters have been renewed. One open truss has been removed. A stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam on reused wave moulded storey posts, a 3-light diamond mullioned window opening, and reverse curved arched braces in the rear wall angles are also present in the later range. The second house, on the right, dates from the 17th century. It is timber-framed with a brick front, whitewashed and plastered, and has a pantiled roof. It consists of two broad cells. The ground floor has an entrance and a 20th-century casement with cambered heads to the left, and an early 19th-century shop front to the right, featuring a half-glazed door with reeded jambs, flanking canted bay windows, and a continuous entablature with outer reeded pilasters. The first floor has three 3:3 pane sashes, and the roof features an embattled parapet and a central ridge stack. A single-storey wing extends to the rear. The interior retains a double butt purlin roof, although the rest has not been inspected. The “Generations” shop wasn’t inspected.